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‘The items in each scale have varying response options; variables were recoded where necessary to account for polarity differences.’

‘In that case, the scoring of the reverse-worded items should be recoded so that the highest numerical score is assigned to ‘strongly agree’ on some items but to ‘strongly disagree’ on others, as appropriate.’

‘Age, originally measured on interval scale, was recoded into two groups - younger adolescents and older adolescents.’

‘They went back and cleaned up the data in their individual databases, recoding parts information so that everyone was working with the same names and numbers for each part.’

‘The categories 6 and 7 were recoded to both represent category 6, and the numbering of the categories was reversed so that 6 = daily and 1 = more seldom than a few times every 12 months.’